Department of Art & Design SUNY Oswego BFA SPRING 2020 GRADUATION CLASS CATALOG
With great pleasure and admiration, the Department of Art and Design at SUNY Oswego presents the spring, BFA graduating class of 2020.
FOREWORD By Cynthia Clabough, faculty coordinator of BFA exhibition course
Every semester, students earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree must prove their right to the degree by completing and presenting a body of work that serves as a visual thesis. This rite of passage event provides proof to the community that they are emerging from college as visual art professionals. As with many rites of passage in the age of COVID-19, the spring class of 2020 was denied that opportunity. As this catalog demonstrates, that exhibition would have been one of the strongest in a long history of outstanding BFA shows.
To the class of 2020, thank you. Your flexibility, understanding, and tenacity have been inspiring. You deserved so much more than what was given to you. I can only hope that we will all be able to bask in the glow of your collective achievement one day. Until then, to borrow from popular culture, “Live Long and Prosper.” 20
BRITTANY ABLEMAN KRISTEN ALGER JORDAN BARBATO NICOLE BARRY LEIGHANN MCPARTLAND MICHAEL MCPARTLIN ISIS MENDOZA
KELSI BRYDEN ANGEL CAMPOS TORO RILEY CLARKE TYLER MORGAN KERI NGUYEN ABBY O’REILLY
MELISSA COCOMELLO ERIKA DOLLMAN MARISSA KUNZWILER MILES PETERSEN JESSICA SANDY MEGHAN SCOLO
MEGAN LABOSKY YAYU LIU RYAN MCLEAN NATE MSITH JOEY SWEENER ABIGAIL WAJDA KATRINA WINBERG 20 BRITTANY ABLEMAN BRITTANY ABLEMAN
Studio Art — Painting Albany, NY [email protected]
BIOGRAPHY ARTIST STATEMENT Brittany Ableman is a painter from After completing my first semester Albany, NY who will be graduating of college as an Accounting major with a bachelor’s in fine arts. I quickly learned that art is what I really wanted to be doing. From Her preferred medium is Oil a young age I developed a love Paint and she enjoys painting for art and over time that passion psychedelic and colorful imagery. grew, and I knew whatever I did in life had to involve art. Brittany will be continuing her studies in Graduate School to My favorite things besides art are gain her Masters in Art Education the ocean and outer space, both of to pursue a teaching career. Her which hold secrets and unknowns dream is to become an art teacher that we can only dream about. in her hometown for grades K-12. I think this “Unknown” is where I What the Butt, Oil on Canvas, Spring 2019 Aside from art, Brittany is a draw most of my inspiration from. big lover of animals, the beach, I create art because the creating and exploring outer space! of it is just as fun and enjoyable as the finished result. I enjoy creating trippy, psychedelic imagery and like to use the ocean and space motifs.
One of my favorite pieces I’ve made is a piece titled “It’s me, Beach!” which was also one of the most enjoyable works to create. For this piece I created a silhouetted portrait of myself using sand, sea shells, sea glass, modeling paste and oil paint on a wood canvas.
Although extremely frustrating gluing every single individual sea shell onto the board the outcome was even better than I could have hoped. That’s all we can ever wish for, right?!
Don’t Eat the Shroomies, Mixed Media on Paper, 2019 Fat Nap, Oil on Canvas, 2019
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Preliminary Cherry, Mixed Media, 2019
I see you, Drawing, 2020 Its Me, Beach! Mixed Media, 2019
8 9 KRISTEN ALGER KRISTEN ALGER
Graphic Design & Illustration Kirkville, NY [email protected]
BIOGRAPHY ARTIST STATEMENT Kristen Leigh Alger was born My mother was a professional in Utica, New York, and lived photographer, and my father in Kirkville, New York, for was a musician, so needless the majority of her life. to say, creativity has been a part of my life since birth. I In 2016, she returned to Utica started working with traditional to study graphic design at drawing and photography in Mohawk Valley Community high school, and gradually College. She transferred to SUNY progressed to vector graphics Oswego in 2018 to continue and digital illustrations later on. her graphic design degree and Eccentric Cat Series, Silkscreen Print, 2019 pursue an illustration minor. It wasn’t until college that my artwork began to adopt Her piece, The Wolf of Yellowstone, a definitive style, mainly was awarded first place for the focusing on steampunk Best of SUNY Student Art Exhibition imagery, surreal animals, and 2017-2018, which featured work tattoo-style design work. from student artists across 64 SUNY campuses. She also had My artwork is often a reflection work featured in the 56th Juried of my interest in music, nature, Student Exhibition and the 2019 and protecting animals. I want my Inktober Exhibition at Oswego. In art to challenge how destructive her free time, she enjoys screen humanity is, while at the same time printing, playing guitar, hiking, evoke empathy from the viewer. Senita Hard Iced Tea, and working with animals. Advertisement, 2019
Senita Hard Iced Tea, Product Design, 2019 The Wolf of Yellowstone, Digital Illustration, 2017 Olympic, Digital Illustration, 2020
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Mordecai, Mixed Media, 2018
Toxic I, Photography, 2019
Plague Doctor, Photography, 2019
21st Century Breakdown, Silkscreen Print, 2019
Toxic II, Photography, 2019
Steampunk Deer, Mixed Media, 2019
12 13 JORDAN BARBATO JORDAN BARBATO
Studio Art — Ceramics Liverpool, NY [email protected]
BIOGRAPHY ARTIST STATEMENT Jordan Barbato is from Liverpool, While studying at SUNY Oswego, New York, and she will be I had gotten the chance to work graduating in May 2020 with a with an abundance of different Bachelor in Fine Arts degree with mediums. However, Ceramics a concentration in ceramics. has always been my medium of choice ever since high school. Her love for ceramics started in high school at C.W Baker Making pieces out of clay can be high school when her ceramic very therapeutic for me. My work is teacher Mrs. Nicoletti pushed inspired by many different ceramic her to be the best she could artists that I have researched. I like be. Jordan has received many to add my twist and personality to awards for her ceramics in high the art I make. Sometimes, I start school and College, including drawing, and I end up coming up multiple presidential awards with new potential project ideas. and the Juror Award at the SUNY Morning Glory, Ceramics, 2018 Sapphire Swirl, Ceramics, 2019 Oswego student Juried Show, I enjoy making pieces that people as well as many other awards. have never seen before. For this exhibition, my collection of work After graduation, Jordan is celebrates nature, as well as how planning on going back to school light can react with ceramics. to get another degree in American Sign Language interpreting. My goal as an artist is to create unique and expressive pieces. To me, it’s important to create art in which you are proud of and passionate about and can learn and grow from and to inspire others.
Lights of Leaves, Vases Of Tranquility, Ceramics, 2019 Ceramics, 2018
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Flourishing Fungi, Ceramic and Glass, 2019
Blue Lamp, Ceramics, 2019
Earthen Tea, Ceramics, 2018
Oyster Bay, Ceramics, 2019
Hanging Bright, Ceramic and Wood, 2019
70’s Light Up, Ceramics, 2019
16 17 NICOLE BARRY NICOLE BARRY
Graphic Design Camillus, NY [email protected]
BIOGRAPHY ARTIST STATEMENT Nicole Barry is a Graphic Designer My love for art and the world and Illustrator from a small town influences my work as I always try outside of Syracuse, New York, to be inspired by the atmosphere called Camillus. She has loved around me. SUNY Oswego has art from a young age and could allowed me to combine my love not picture her life without it. for art and nature by working at the Sustainability Office as Nicole continued to grow as an their Graphic Designer, being artist at SUNY Oswego, pursuing close to Lake Ontario, and a major in Graphic Design and allowing me to travel with the a minor in Communications art department to Ireland. and Social Interaction. I have found a passion for While at SUNY Oswego, her product design and branding that most significant achievements has stemmed from my love for have been her work featured in digital and traditional illustration, the 54th, 55th, and 56th Juried type, logo, and poster design. Art Show and also receiving the Jurors Design Award in 2019.
Looking towards the future, Nicole is planning on working in a design firm specializing in advertising, branding, and package design.
ORI Promotion Campaign, 2018
Lake Ontario Poster, Digital Illustration, 2018 Portrait Tripdych: Noelle, Ethan, & Krista, Oil Pastel, 2017-2019
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Bus Share Promotion Campaign, 2019
Ladders Podcast Cover, 2019
Too Sweet Product Packaging and Billboard Design, 2019
Sustainability Week, Digital Signage, 2019
20 21 KELSI BRYDEN KELSI BRYDEN
Graphic Design Syracuse, NY [email protected]
BIOGRAPHY ARTIST STATEMENT From illustration to marketing Karma Canine Care was created campaigns, Kelsi Bryden is a jack of as a way for me to combine my all trades when it comes to design. love for design with my love for canines. It started with creating She began her education at a blog where I could share my Onondaga Community College, personal experiences with other earning an Associate’s Degree in dog parents and became a small Multimedia Design. Continuing business that I hope to one day her educational pursuit at SUNY (after COVID-19) start. I was able Oswego, Bryden is on her way to to combine the graphic design, her dream of a career as a designer. web design, and photography skills that I have developed here She earned the Jessie E. & Jay D. at Suny Oswego into one project. Rudolph Scholarship Award in 2018 and is working on expanding My German Shepherd and Golden her skills through a marketing Retriever were my inspiration for internship at C&S Companies. this brand. They helped me to After graduation, she hopes to develop the bandanas by being kick start a career in marketing. my unsuspecting test subjects. In her free time, Kelsi also does commission paintings and illustrations as a hobby. She hopes to begin doing freelance design work in her near future.
Untitled, Silkscreen Print on Wood, 2018
The Adventures of Lorem Ipsum, Dog Painting, Acrylic on Canvas, 2018 Digital Illustration, 2018
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Karma Canine Care Food Advertisement, 2019
Karma Canine Bandanas, 2020 Karma Canine Care Poster, 2019
24 25 ANGEL CAMPOS TORO ANGEL CAMPOS TORO
Graphic Designer & Illustrator Oswego, NY [email protected]
BIOGRAPHY ARTIST STATEMENT Angel is a graphic designer When describing my work as a and Illustrator. Born in Puerto whole, I only think of the things Rico, most of the inspiration that inspired them. My work is for his artwork stems from mostly a collection of my memories Angel’s background and and past experiences. I was born in culture. He moved to the United Puerto Rico and came here when States in his teen years. I was thirteen, so in large part, my culture and how my family and In the transition, he fell in love with I keep our traditions alive drive Graphic Design. Utilizing past works my inspiration to create. I often of digital illustration and graphic find myself creating work that design, Angel uses 100% of his expresses the way I felt throughout work on everything from branding the transitional period of learning campaigns to package design. a new culture and the way that changed how I see the world. Spring Without Us, Digital illustration, 2020 Rose Colored Glasses, Digital illustration, 2020 He will be receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design. When The pieces in the show are a mix participating in the 56th and 57th of my Illustration work and my Student Juried Show, Angel’s work graphic design work, which in won an award for a Presidential themselves are very different Purchase Award. The same year, in style and tone. My graphic he also accomplished winning the design work is more practical Jesse E and Jay Rudolph award. and to the point while my Illustration work is more open- ended. In turn, I hope to show my versatility as a designer/artist.
Curiosities, Digital illustration, 2019
Coralis, Animation Still, 2020 The Blues Digital illustration, 2020
26 27 ANGEL CAMPOS TORO ANGEL CAMPOS TORO
Dr. Lewis B. O’Donnell Media Summit Campaign, 2019
Puerto Puertorican Recipe Postcard Illustrations, 2020
Oswego Reading Initiative Campaign, 2020 Oswego Banner Prototypes, 2019
28 29 RILEY CLARKE RILEY CLARKE
Graphic Designer Rochester, NY [email protected]
BIOGRAPHY ARTIST STATEMENT Riley Clarke is a graduating senior From my short three semesters at SUNY Oswego earning a BFA in at SUNY Oswego, I have grown so Graphic Design with interests in much as a person and an artist. Illustration and Screen Printing. The art I am presenting is a She is originally from Rochester, combination of personal, class, and NY and previously attended client work. The range of work and Monroe Community College various techniques I have been and SUNY Purchase for graphic able to learn through traditional design. Riley has been on the art, digital art, and screen printing President’s List for the semester influences my work ultimately. of Spring 2020 and is committed It allows me to create work that to her education and art. is more tactile and personal, which helps to stay in tune with Her work has been shown in my style and client needs. Metamorphise: The Unleashing of Creativity at the Corner Gallery and the 57th Juried Art Exhibition at the Tyler Art Gallery.
She has worked as a designer for Amy Bartell since August 2019 and plans to continue her design work through an internship in June 2020.
Rain Stencil, 2019 Oswego Reading Initiative Campaign, 2020
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Heron, Micron, 2019
Swamp Girl, Screen Print, 2019
Moth Triptych, Screen Print, 2020
Fiovana Campaign, 2019 Deer, Digital Illustration, 2020
32 33 MELISSA COCOMELLO MELISSA COCOMELLO
Studio Artist; Ceramics Mount Kisco, New York [email protected] https://www.etsy.com/shop/CocomellosCreations
BIOGRAPHY ARTIST STATEMENT Melissa Cocomello is a sculptor My love for 3-Dimensional from Mount Kisco, New York. She work started in middle school has been working with ceramics with ceramics. Shortly after, I since she was a child and picked discovered wire wrapped jewelry up metals in High School. Melissa’s made with copper and aluminum work has been in three shows. wire. I haven’t stopped making Student show at the Katonah Art jewelry since, but have upgraded Museum in 2014 and a student the materials to silver wire and show in Greenwich, CT, in 2015. cut minerals. The works being shown today represent my Her metal sculpture was in the growth mentally and spiritually 57th Annual Juried Student during my college experience. Exhibition in 2020. Melissa has also had the opportunity to My biggest inspiration is spiritual learn figurative sculpture and self-growth represented though Geometric Vagina, watercolor during her semester a few different motifs from the Cast Iron, 2017 abroad in Florence, Italy. natural world. Animals that I resonate with, the divine feminine When Melissa is not creating and yonic symbolism, show up in Self Portrait, Ceramic, 2019 ceramic sculptures, she is working all of these pieces. Creating art on wire wrapped jewelry that is my outlet for discovering my she sells on her online Etsy shop. wellness and care for my higher In the near future, she will be self. My artwork is meant to working on making full-size figures interest the viewer in engaging in that reflect her growth physically mindfulness and self-awareness. and spiritually as a woman. In engaging in their place in the After graduation, Melissa will be physical and spiritual world. working to advance her metal casting and jewelry design skills.
Stray, Copper Astral Body, Plaster, Etching Print, 2018 Fabric and Yarn , 2020
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Shadow Self, Ceramic, 2019 Shed, Mixed Media, 2018
Santa Croce Church Facade , Watercolor, 2019
Skull, Watercolor, 2019
Rick and Morty Dinner Set, Ceramic, 2019
Dali Master Copy, Oil Paint, 2018
36 37 ERIKA DOLLMAN ERIKA DOLLMAN
Graphic Designer; llustration and Art History minors Long Island, NY [email protected] https://erikadollmann.myportfolio.com/
BIOGRAPHY ARTIST STATEMENT Erika Dollmann is an upcoming Art is something that has always Graphic Designer from Long come naturally to me, but it Island, NY. She blends her love was not until my sophomore of illustration, photography, year of college at SUNY and typography to create a Oswego that I discovered my Oswego Reading Initiative Campaign, 2020 wide variety of artwork. passion for Graphic Design.
She is often inspired by renowned I prefer to think of myself as a graphic designers, as well as her generalist since my work spans passion for travel. She enjoys across various mediums, including creating images traditionally as well but not limited to traditional as digitally; therefore, she does not illustration, photography, digital feel limited by what she can create. illustration, and recently animation. My pieces connect to nature and Erika’s work has been shown in tie to my own experiences. various art shows in Tyler hall, including Inktober and the 57th I find gratification in creating Juried Student Exhibition. Upon art with a purpose and have graduating from SUNY Oswego significantly grown as an artist and with a BFA, she hopes to find individual over the past four years. work in or around New York I hope to keep learning and never City creating various posters, stop developing my artistic skills. brochures, etc. for a company.
The Great Wave, Animation Still, 2020
COVID-19 Public Awareness Posters, 2020
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Irish Landscape, Photographic Collage,2019 Saul Bass, Poster, 2019 Massimo Vignelli, Poster, 2019
Orlando Bloom, Digital Illustration, 2020 Irish Landscape, Photographic Collage,2019 Susan Kare, Poster, 2019
40 41 MARISSA KUNZWILER MARISSA KUNZWILER
Graphic Designer; Illustration and Art History minors Oswego, NY / Hockessin, DE [email protected] linkedin.com/in/marissakunzwiler Instagram. marissa_kunzwiler
BIOGRAPHY ARTIST STATEMENT Marissa Kunzwiler was born Starting at a young age, I found and raised in Oswego, New myself very passionate about the York. She attended Finger Lakes Arts. As I grew older, I realized I Community College for Graphic wanted to become a professional Design for one semester. artist where I can create artwork that is visually appealing and After her first year, she then sparks emotion/interest to viewers. transferred to the State University of New York at Oswego, where The artwork in my exhibit she received her bachelor highlights my passion for branding/ of fine arts degree with an logo design, as well as digital emphasis on Graphic Design and traditional illustrations. My as well as a double minor in inspiration for the Branding of the Illustration and Art History. Tangled Vine Winery comes from an interest in wine and the process While at SUNY Oswego, she of winemaking; for years, my family focused her college career on would make their wine at home in Illustration and Printmaking. After the cellar. I intended for my work graduation, Marissa will be looking to showcase the professional side for work in the creative design field of what a brand/logo should be as a corporate Identity designer, to attract customers to want to digital Illustrator, and/or freelancer. visit The Tangled Vine Winery. The inspiration for my Illustrations comes from my recent sketches that reflect the internal struggles I am going through with anxiety as well as moving away to a new state. The Illustration pieces are to express emotion & mood to the viewer and feel they can relate to the work in some way. Hopefully, my art exhibited inspires others to be passionate and create art based on this creativity.
The Tangled Vine Winery, Branding & Packaging Campaign, 2020
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Untitled Photographs, Darkroom Photography, 2018
Get Absorbed in My World Series II — Cry & Hands, Digital Illustration, 2020 Get Absorbed in My World Series I — Cry, Hug, Hands, Kiss, Digital Illustration, 2020
44 45 MEGAN LABOSKY MEGAN LABOSKY
Studio Artist concentration in Printmaking with Illustration Minor Binghamton, NY [email protected]
BIOGRAPHY ARTIST STATEMENT Megan grew up in Binghamton, I am a printmaker by trade and New York. After graduating from an illustrator because of it. In my high school in 2016, she chose to work I strive to integrate social, enroll in SUNY Oswego’s Bachelors political, and personal problems in Art program due to her passion that directly impact me in my daily for art and family alumni. Megan life. My inspiration comes from is a printmaker in the Bachelor problems or causes that I relate to in Fine Arts program with a such as the harm humans cause studio emphasis and a minor in to manatees and the coral reefs, illustration. She has a passion the daily pain I endure because of for bookmaking and screen endometriosis, or support for a printing. She is a member of the political candidate advocating for The New Language, Oil Painting on Canvas, 2018 Sea Cows, Digital Poster, 2020 Student Art Exhibition Committee social change and workers rights. and is an avid crocheter. For every cause I make work After graduation, Megan plans about, I have a strong emotional to earn her master’s degree in reaction towards it. Whether that Art Education to become a K-12 emotion is hope for a political art teacher. Megan has exhibited cause or immense sadness for various prints, paintings, and the extinction of species, each illustrations in shows, such as feeling drives me to make work the 56th and 57th Juried Student that I am proud of. Through the Exhibitions at Oswego. Megan work I’ve created, I intend to invoke is also a teaching assistant at a reaction from the viewer that, SUNY Oswego’s At the Art Studio hopefully, is similar to mine. program for school-age children.
Untitled, Silkscreen Print , 2019 RIP- Reefs in Pieces, Ink and Watercolor on Paper, 2019
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The Revolution, Silkscreen Print on Bristol Board, 2019
MJL, Silkscreen Print on Long Sleeve Shirt, 2019
The Revolution, Silkscreen Print on Short Sleeve Shirt, 2019
Speak Endo, Silkscreen Print on Cardstock, 2019
48 49 YAYU LIU YAYU LIU
Graphic Designer StatenIsland, NY [email protected]
BIOGRAPHY ARTIST STATEMENT Yayu Liu was born in China, Although I love generating currently residing in Staten animation and looking at animation Island, NY. As a graphic designer, work, my artwork has covered a creating design using digital more extensive range of art. In technology has become one this exhibition, I believe it was of Liu’s essential methods to necessary to show my potential as generate creative artwork. a generalist artist who is capable of different software and the ability Nowadays, using technology, such to adapt to new software quickly. as using computers, phones, and DSLR cameras, is an ordinary skill. My inspiration comes from what To explore these applications I see daily; sometimes, it would and creatively apply their usage be interesting things I see. Other is Liu’s objective as an artist. times, the emotions and ideas that pique my inspiration comes By getting a Bachelor in Fine from my culture. I expect my work Arts degree, Liu displays an to show my point of view to the experienced-understanding of the world and to display my personal useful skills necessary as a graphic growth through the different designer. In the future, Liu plans on tools I have used. Looking at all exploring the multimedia industry. of my work from using platforms like Adobe Suite to Lightwave 3D and Cinema 4D, they validate my exploration of an extensive range of digital applications.
Flower Pottery, Ceramic, 2019 Hybrid Animal, Digital Illustration, 2019 Oswego Reading Initiative Campaign, 2020
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Music , Still and Animation Mockup, 2020
Loop Patern, Cards and Animation Mockup, 2020
Crater Lake, Poster, 2019
Mid-Autumn Festival, Poster, 2019
Fish Cave, Still and Animation Mockup, 2020 Traditional Chinese Hand Fan, Booklet, 2019
52 53 RYAN MCLEAN RYAN MCLEAN
Graphic Designer & Illustrator Buffalo, NY [email protected]
BIOGRAPHY ARTIST STATEMENT Ryan McLean is from Buffalo, New I have always been interested in York. He will receive a Bachelor of art throughout my education, Fine Arts degree for Illustration and very early on in high school, with a Minor in Graphic Design. In I decided that I wanted to pursue the past, McLean had a focus as a a career with art. Much of my graphic artist before realizing he work is inspired and influenced enjoyed creating illustrations more. by nature and fantasy.
McLean had always made I try to create work that realistically illustrations as a graphic designer depicts the subject to create a but hadn’t found the correct visual representation of what is in name for it until attending SUNY our world or to create imagery to Oswego. In 2019, McLean had bring things like creatures from a piece of art featured in the fantasy to life. The style of my Mystical Arts of Tibet show in 2019. work tends to change as I explore Currently, McLean is studying new techniques and continue to explore Illustration through to grow as an artist. I like to the use of screen printing. develop my skills in many different media types, such as traditional drawing, watercolor, screen printing, and digital illustration.
Initiative, Digital Illustration, 2018
Autumn, Screen Print, 2019
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Title Title Title Title, Medium Medium Medium, Date Date Date Goliath, Digital Illustration, 2020
Desert Lily, Copper Etchinge, 2019
USS Gig Poster, Screen Print, 2019
Atropa Belladonna, Copper Etchinge, 2019
Atropa Belladonna, Digital Illustration, 2018
Untitled, Watercolor, 2020
56 57 LEIGHANN MCPARTLAND LEIGHANN MCPARTLAND
XV. The Devil, Ink & Colored Pencil, 2019 Illustrator Chester, New York [email protected] behance.net/leighannm
BIOGRAPHY ARTIST STATEMENT Leighann McPartland is an College is a real-time of self- illustrator from the small town of discovery in the sense that no Chester, New York. After applying one knows who they are and are for her Bachelors of Fine Arts, trying on all sorts of different she stumbled across illustration, hats to find out. In this struggle and suddenly all the years of to find out, we make choices and doodling in the margins of her mistakes which can completely notebooks made sense. Leighann alter the way we see the world has earned Dean’s List every around us, whether good or semester since transferring–even bad. In my time at Oswego, I’ve being accepted into the Transfer’s been able to have insight into my National Honor Society, Tau Sigma. psyche. As a result, this experience has helped fuel my drive to She has shown work in exhibitions create for the rest of my life. and publications and plans to continue to do so. Leighann I use illustration as a form of dreams of becoming a tattoo self-guided therapy by creating artist while also doing freelance worlds and realities that help illustration and eventually me cope with addiction, battle creating her comic series. depression, and explore my spirituality. While I don’t consider In due time, she would like to myself religious, I find myself receive her MFA and be able to spiritual. In the vastness of the teach at a collegiate level, giving universe, we are both nothing and the same time and knowledge everything. We gain from it what to her students that her we put into it. The pieces I have professors once had given her. on display are autobiographical, touching on issues of self, identity, and ego. In both the creation process and the final imagery, these pieces have helped heal me, have helped strengthen me, and have helped me grow as both an artist and an individual.
Spilled Milk, Silkscreen Print, 2019 XVII. The Star, Ink & Colored Pencil, 2019 VI. The Lovers, Ink & Colored Pencil, 2019
58 59 LEIGHANN MCPARTLAND LEIGHANN MCPARTLAND
Bowie and the Occult, Digital Illustration, 2020
Essence, Oil Paint , 2018 Self-Portrait in Iron, Iron, 2017
Travel Posters, Digital The Left Hand Path, Digital Illustration, 2020 Illustration, 2020 Insert Clown Emoji Here, Digital Illustration, 2019 60 61 MICHAEL MCPARTLIN MICHAEL MCPARTLIN
Graphic Designer Long Island, New York [email protected] [email protected]
BIOGRAPHY ARTIST STATEMENT Michael McPartlin, usually What my intentions of the work referred to as Mike, was born in was, what I was trying to achieve Lindenhurst, New York on Long with light. Why I like photography, Island. At the young age of seven and prints, what the connection he moved to upstate New York, is between the two. What about thirty minutes outside feeling was I going for with my Albany. Shortly after he made portraiture, feeling of landscapes. friends with people from the area, and at about age ten, he and one other of his friends picked up photoshop. Since then Mike has not put the program down, and has picked up several others along the way. Eleven years later, Michael is on track to graduate from SUNY Oswego with a Bachelor Fine Arts in Graphic Design and a Minor in Photography. Untitled, Photography, 2019
Untitled, Photography, 2019
62 63 MICHAEL MCPARTLIN MICHAEL MCPARTLIN
Brian, Portrait Photography, 2019
Brian, Portrait Photography, 2019 Michael, Portrait Photography, 2019
64 65 ISIS MENDOZA ISIS MENDOZA
Graphic Designer & Illustrator Poughkeepsie, NY [email protected]
BIOGRAPHY ARTIST STATEMENT Isis Victoria Mendoza was born in Experimenting with different types Philadelphia but was raised in the of media is something that I love Dominican Republic. From a young to do. To explore and learn a new age, Isis was interested in the arts, craft, going through the ups and always drawing and writing short downs, really makes my work stories in her free time. When more interesting. I have always she moved back to the States had an affinity for the arts, and after graduating high school at took some classes at an early age. seventeen, she looked into the art When I graduated, I didn’t know field and was interested in graphic what I wanted to do with my life; design. She recently fell in love with I had moved back to the United watercolors and motion graphics, States and was unsure what to wanting to incorporate these media do. I originally wanted to pursue a into her digital works. Currently, career in biology, thinking I could she is studying to obtain her involve art some way later on. Bachelor’s in Fine Arts in Graphic When discussing my plans with Design at the State University my family, my mother encouraged of New York in Oswego. After me to go for a career in art. After graduation, she wishes to get a job researching some of the different in her industry and will continue fields and branches in art, I chose Zion National Park, Digital her studies after a few years. to go with Graphic Design. The Illustration, 2019 encouragement from my family is something I feel grateful for every single day, and such, my family is one of the primary Old Stories 2, Motion sources of inspiration in my work. Graphic Still, 2020
La Gallera Campaign, 2020
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Mujer por el Lago, Digital Illustration, 2020
Unnamed #2, Digital Illustration, 2020
Character Design, Digital Illustration, 2019
Untitled Portrait, Digital Unnamed, Digital Illustration, 2019 Illustration, 2020
Grim Tales, Animation Still, 2020
68 69 TYLER MORGAN TYLER MORGAN
Graphic Designer Long Island, NY [email protected]
BIOGRAPHY ARTIST STATEMENT Tyler Morgan is a designer who I am proficient in graphic design, cares about user experience. He is web design, and everything else from Long Island, lives in Oswego, in between. I am very conscious and has studied abroad in the of how users interpret design. Czech Republic. Three words to Applying color theory, choosing describe him would be: diligent, the right font, and carefully creative, and lionhearted. SUNY placing content is how I create Oswego has pushed him to reach a successful user experience. I Positive Vibes, Sticker Design, 2019 his academic potential. His greatest often push myself and take on achievements include founding challenging situations to enhance the campaign Think Outside The my skills better. An example is Bag NY, designing a portable when I founded and designed interactive exhibit displayed in 5 Think Outside The Bag NY. This elderly homes called: Storytelling campaign’s mission is to help Through Mementos, being a part the earth by unifying New York of the Vote Oswego 2019 design residents to reduce their impact team, and becoming a teaching on their environment. I try to assistant for two semesters. focus my projects on ways to help others, whether it’s for the environment or designing for the disabled. I’m an expert web and mobile designer who cares about accessibility across all media. I believe all users of digital media should access content as quickly as someone without a disability. I take upon myself to be educated, up to date, and to always meet accessibility standards in all-digital design. I implement my graphic design strategies into web design by engaging my audience, prototyping ideas, and testing designs on colleagues.
Advisement Brochure, 2019 Can We Save Them Campaign, Packaging and Promotion, 2019
70 71 TYLER MORGAN TYLER MORGAN
Think Outside the Bag NY, Packaging, Promotion, Website, 2019
72 73 KERI NGUYEN KERI NGUYEN
Studio Artist: Painting Concentration Liverpool, NY [email protected]
BIOGRAPHY ARTIST STATEMENT Keri was born in Louisiana, where Identity has always been an she spent her childhood catching integral part of my artwork, with frogs with her cousins and playing my inspirations being memories outdoors, or spending time with both joyful and traumatic. Imagery her father on his fishing boat. She such as flowers, flowing water, moved to New York when she was and the female body are recurrent eight years old and developed an themes in my artwork, which interest in art and video games can be linked to my influences in this new environment. From Vietnamese culture and my family’s there, she would draw fictional devotion to religion. Every artwork characters, interior spaces, and holds meaning, with either a story experiment with different types or concept, I want the viewer to of art inspired by her childhood comprehend. Another essential Cyborg, Oil on Wood Panel, 2020 experiences as a Vietnamese- subject matter in my artwork is American. At the State University the topic of sustainability, with at Oswego, she’s taken a range the prevalent issue of climate of classes from photography, change and pollution affecting printmaking, painting, drawing, everyone living on Earth. These digital illustration, creative coding, are the ideas that I resonate ceramics, and other kinds. Her with & want to illustrate from main style of art is surrealism, my viewpoint in this world. in which she blends different environments, animals, and human figures. She is graduating with a Fine Arts major with a drawing and painting concentration. Post- Fragmented, Multimedia Acrylic graduation, she plans on taking on Painting on Puzzle Pieces, 2019 different artistic jobs to continue experimenting and learning, and create surreal artwork on the side.
Memorabilia, Oil on Canvas, 2020 Abandoned Technology, Oil on Wood Panel, 2020
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Dollhouse, Air-dry Clay with Acrylic Paint, 2020
Mortality Series — Parts I, Ceramic, 2020
Vietnamese American , Mortality Series — Part II, Ceramic, 2020 Air-dry Clay with Acrylic Paint, 2020
Mortality Series — Part III, Ceramic, 2020
76 77 ABBY O’REILLY ABBY O’REILLY
Graphic Designer & Illustrator Juice Up Campaign, Web Banner Ad, 2020 East Syracuse, NY [email protected]
BIOGRAPHY ARTIST STATEMENT Abby O’Reilly was born and raised I made this piece for this exhibition in Syracuse, New York. She is because I love what is happening currently a Graphic Design BFA right now in culture and fashion: major at SUNY Oswego but is bright colors, sustainability, experimenting with Sculpture and and self-expression. My Illustration, as well. Her passion for inspiration came from studying culture and fashion always makes art, fashion, and cultures in an appearance in her projects. She different countries and, of course, is continually researching the latest Instagram. I intend this work to trends in different areas of the arts. make the viewer feel inspired She grew up drawing and always and happy about the future. envisioned herself being an artist or veterinarian. She is still trying What is happening in our culture to find a happy blend between her right now is revolutionary. traditional 3D and digital work. In essence, the rights of all Her ultimate goal would be to people and all animals and the create a brand that encourages environment we live in to coexist world peace and equality through peacefully comes closer every day. fashion, graphic design, and I made this work to display what I sculpture. Her most significant have learned in my undergraduate achievement to date would be career, with the influence of her BFA show. Upon graduating, global culture and fashion. I have Abby plans to travel and expand investigated what is happening her portfolio to achieve her in design and technology and ultimate goal, a career in the arts. attempted to express my version.
Welcome to Italy, Postcard, 2020 Juice Up Campaign, Print Advertisement, 2020
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Bula Bling Campaign, Boutique Advertisement, 2020
Big Mouth, Bula Bling Campaign, 2020
Bula Bling Campaign, Boutique Advertisement, 2020 Bula Bling Campaign, Boutique Advertisement, 2020
80 81 MILES PETERSEN MILES PETERSEN
Graphic Designer Walden, New York [email protected]
BIOGRAPHY ARTIST STATEMENT Miles Petersen spent his early life I’ve always been impressed by my traveling around the world, a few peers here at SUNY Oswego. I used years growing up in each country. to want to be able to produce the After moving to America, it was same work that I would see them difficult for him to find a direction make, but over time my opinion until he started taking art classes changed. We are all talented in in high school as a way to avoid our own way, whether it be our taking Spanish classes. Shortly medium of choice or our stylistic after, he discovered art to be his motives. Going to this school has Flux, Spin, Melt, Silkscreen passion. Coming to SUNY Oswego, helped me figure out what my Shirt Mockups, 2020 he did not want to limit himself to passion is. Before joining the art a single medium. Miles’ goal is to program I was lost in terms of life create his own identity through goals. The first class I genuinely a multitude of mediums. He has enjoyed was an art class. Quoting worked to design for the Vote the late, great Mark Twain “Find a Oswego team. He also designed job you enjoy doing, and you will and produced an interactive never have to work a day in your exhibit titled Recollections, that life.” I enjoy doing the work I do, travels to various hospitals in the even as tedious as it may seem Syracuse area. Currently, with I will never stop enjoying it. a BFA degree in graphic design, Miles is working towards building a clothing brand, incorporating both screenprinting and animation.
Gig Poster, Silkscreen Print, 2019
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Untitled, Digital Illustration, 2019 Melting, Digital Illustration, 2020
Liams Identity, Digital Photography, 2019 Untitled, Digital Photography, 2019
Green, Digital Painting, 2019 Deep, Digital Illustration, 2019 Slices, Photo Manipulation, 2019 84 85 JESSICA SANDY JESSICA SANDY
Fine Artist with MAT prep. Long Island, New York [email protected]
BIOGRAPHY ARTIST STATEMENT Jessica Sandy is from Plainview, Throughout my artistic career, New York, and will be graduating I have been lucky enough to May 2020 with a Bachelor’s work with multiple mediums. degree in Fine Art alongside a I have always felt drawn to MAT prep. She holds experience photography, and the wonders in all mediums, but her favorites you could capture, but it was not are photography and sculpture. until my time at Oswego that I Participating in several exhibitions found out my love of sculpture. both at school and back home, I’ve found that sculpture allows Sandy has experience in me to express myself in ways I participating in such events. had only seen in photography. After she graduates, Sandt will The artworks on display derive be attending graduate school from photography series focusing in the fall and hopes to be a on the human body with the special education teacher. She absence of sexuality. The series’ Shackled, Iron Sculpture, 2018 loves working with children and purpose focuses on the beauty would like to be able to bring of the body, without a stigma Book Arts, 2020 her skills into the classroom. that surrounds female nudity.
Enchanting, Phoography, 2018 Envious, Phoography, 2018 Impure, Phoography, 2018
What A Whale, Wooden Sculpture, 2018 86 87 JESSICA SANDY JESSICA SANDY
Hurt, Photography, 2018
Gentle, Photography, 2018
Troubled, Photography, 2018
Faithful, Photography, 2018 Weary, Photography, 2018
Exhausted, Photography, 2018
88 89 MEGHAN SCOLO MEGHAN SCOLO
Photographer Long Island, NY [email protected] Instagram: mscolo_photography
BIOGRAPHY ARTIST STATEMENT Meghan is a photographer from I use photography as a means of Long Island, NY, and will be an expressing myself and my ideas Oswego graduate in Spring 2020. artistically. Every photo is a visual This May, she will be graduating representation of my style, identity, with a bachelor’s degree in and mentality. Whether using a Beneath, Photography, 2019 Fine Arts with a concentration digital or analog camera, my work in photography. Her passion always involves a process that for photography started in the attempts to provoke meaning darkroom and quickly expanded while being my own esthetic. My to digital photography. Ever work typically consists of a lot since then, her infatuation with of portrait photography, but I photography led her to where just as much enjoy the simplicity she is today. After graduating, of bringing a camera on the she will be focusing on attending go documenting everyday life. graduate school for a Masters of When shooting portraiture, my Fine Arts. She plans to continue her relationship with my models and Blinds, Photography, 2019 photography in years to come and their translations of my ideas are is enthusiastic about her future. significantly crucial to me. As a result, I am drawn to the process of composing work that holds value to myself others around me.
White Wall, Photography, 2019
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Body, Photography, 2019
Body, Photography, 2019
Body, Photography, 2019
92 93 NATE SMITH NATE SMITH
Grphic Designer Stanley NY [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/nate-smith729/
BIOGRAPHY ARTIST STATEMENT Nate’s interest in art started at a As an artist, I am interested in young age in Stanley, New York. the natural world, one that is full He found peace in the calmness of animals and nature working of nature and sought to create together. There is a consistent art that was as random as nature theme of life in my art, which itself. After high school, he moved shows the image of the world Title Title Title Title, Medium Medium onto his local community college, seen as it is. I don’t have a specific Medium, Date Date Date where he got to use the knowledge medium that I like the most; that he learned from working on however, I enjoy photography the yearbook team at school. At and illustrations of animals that his community college, he made I do in pen and ink. All I want it into the Spring Arts Festival to show is the basics rather and got awards for prowess in his than the sprawling industrial work in the subjects of ceramics zones that modernism likes to and illustration. At SUNY Oswego, highlight. My inspiration is the he learned how to adapt his work peacefulness of nature and how and make it more professional. things are at calm when you are He has had work in the 56th and in the middle of nowhere. I find 57th annual juried show and The the freedom of nature intriguing, Mystical Art of Tibet show. After how the birds and the deer can college, he plans to pursue art that roam freely and live to survive. Woodland Forest, Poster, 2019 displays his interests in nature. I wish that were the way life Good Doctor, Poster, 2018 worked in our society today.
Squirrel, Photography, 2019 Stag and His Reflection, Pen and Ink, 2019 Lizard and Bug, Mixed Media, 2019
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Self Portrait Series, Photography, 2019
Land, Sea, and Air, Book Series, 2020
Rabbit, Photography, 2019 Seagull, Photography, 2019
96 97 JOEY SWEENER JOEY SWEENER
Grphic Designer; Art History minor Rensselaer County, NY [email protected] https://www.behance.net/SweenerJoey
BIOGRAPHY ARTIST STATEMENT Joey Sweener is a graphic designer “PURGE the world of bourgeois and typographer from Rensselaer sickness [...] & commercialized County, New York. He serves culture [...] promote NON ART as co-president of the Oswego REALITY to be grasped by all Design Club and is the treasurer peoples, not only critics [...] of the Student Art Exhibition and professionals.” Committee. With typography as — George Maciunas a focus, Joey’s body of work aims to combine graphic, often hand- It shouldn’t take an economist for drawn, or textured imagery, with you to know that you’re underpaid legibility and understanding. His for all the work you do at your job; Every Time I Die Age of Sin work has awarded him the Jessie neither does it take an art critic to , Silkscreen Print, 2019 , Silkscreen Print Mock-up, 2020 E. & Jay D. Rudolph Scholarship tell you what art makes the hairs Award in 2018 and has participated on your neck stand up and what in two shows through the Art art feels in lockstep with popular Association of Oswego. Swiss culture. I strive on every end to poster design and political activism create work that reflects the ideas are his primary drivers in the outlined by the Fluxists: artmaking world of graphic design; outside as an act of transgression against of the studio, you can find him the rich and powerful. My work with his nose stuck in a book or reminds viewers that we have more touring the closest art gallery. in common with migrant mothers wanting a better life for their kids than we do the celebrities who profit from retweeting that migrant mother’s story. My work is not an end unto itself; it is but one small piece in the much larger puzzle of solidarity between the peoples of the world. A revolution is an act of hope. Welcome to the funeral of planet Earth; have confidence that the society founded after this one takes better care of its people (or at least gives them healthcare).
Artist for Econmic Freedom, Digital Poster, 2019 Welcome to The Funeral of Planet Earth, Digital Postcard, 2020
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Opioid Crisis at Freer/Sackler, Tear Gas at the Whitney, Silkscreen Print, 2020 Silkscreen Print, 2020
Can’t Swim Gig Poster Series, Digital Illustration, 2020
Mass Incarceration at the MoMA, Sex Offenders at the MoMA, Silkscreen Print, 2020 Silkscreen Print, 2020 100 101 ABIGAIL WAJDA ABIGAIL WAJDA
Illustrator Staatsburg, New York [email protected]
BIOGRAPHY ARTIST STATEMENT Abby Wajda is an illustrator from Over the past few years, my artistic Hyde Park, New York. She began career has consisted mostly of her college career practicing work created for others, whether Animal Science at the University they’re a friend, professor, or of Maine and quickly transitioned employer. It’s been a long time from studying the anatomy of since I’ve been able to create cows to studying new trends work purely for myself. Through and techniques in the world this show, I’ve had the freedom of illustration. Although she’s to choose exactly what I wanted switched tracks, the outdoors to do. I’ve gotten to use the skills continue to be a significant source I’ve acquired during my time here of inspiration for her artwork. at Oswego to experiment with Starting at SUNY Oswego with a different aspects of the art and studio emphasis, she now enjoys design world and where I fit into it. using both traditional and digital Looking back on where I was three media in her work. In the future, years ago versus where I am now, she hopes to use her artistic combined with the ability to create abilities to work as an illustrator whatever I wanted this semester, for an outdoor-based company. has helped me to narrow down the many career opportunities that the art world has to offer. It’s allowed me to realize that illustration is where I feel the most comfortable, and I’ve grown to love the ways I’m able to incorporate it with other things that I love. This collection is inspired by my love of nature and some of the activities that people (myself included) do to enjoy it. I hope that my designs are able to encourage others to take advantage of everything nature has to offer, and to help them feel more connected to it in whatever way they choose.
Caught in the Headlights, Watercolor, Ink, and Colored Pencils, 2020 Rainbow Dog, Watercolor, Ink, and Colored Pencils, 2020
102 103 ABIGAIL WAJDA ABIGAIL WAJDA
Moth #1, Digital Painting, 2020
Moth #3, Digital Painting, 2020
Moth #2 Black and White, Watercolor and Ink, 2020 , Digital Painting, 2020
104 105 KATRINA WINBERG KATRINA WINBERG
Photographer Rome, New York [email protected]
BIOGRAPHY ARTIST STATEMENT Katrina Winberg is from Rome, Self-expression is something NY, where her love for art began. we all search for; I have always She is estimated to graduate in expressed myself in artistic ways. the Spring of 2020, earning a My love for the camera started Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts when I was young but grew into a with minors in Photography and passion when I took my first black Art History. She plans to continue and white film photography class at her education to earn a Masters’s Mohawk Valley Community College. degree in Photography with the I enjoy doing visually artistic work, goal of teaching at the collegiate created photographically. I recently level. Katrina attended Mohawk made a series of photographs that Valley Community College, where dealt with embracing the flaws she received an Associates’ degree, of experimental processes. My as well as the Fine Arts award for artwork is a mixture of traditional her graduating class in 2018. In photography and the artistic her spare time, she enjoys being qualities of a modern artist. Much in good company, exploring the of my inspiration comes from the outdoors, and experiencing life world around me, the action of on the other side of the camera. capturing that world is my way of filtering out what is essential and what is only background noise. Experimental photography processes are the most interesting to me because you get your hands dirty and become involved in the craft. In this fast-paced world, it is nice to slow down and discover the simpler things in life.
Untitled, Cyanotype on Reeves BFK, 2019. Portrait Series 1, 2, 3, 4, Large Format Photography, 2019. Clockwise from Top Left — Zac, Fran, Megan, and Anthony 106 107 KATRINA WINBERG KATRINA WINBERG
Triptych—Untitled 1, Digital Photography, 2019
Triptych—Untitled 2, Digital Photography, 2019
Triptych—Untitled 3, Digital Photography, 2019
108 109 CREDITS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
LAYOUT & DESIGN
Cover Design — Nicole Barry
Portrait Photography — Michael McPartlin & Kristen Alger
Page Design — Cynthia Clabough
Production Assistant — Adam Kuhn
ART DEPARTMENT ADMINISTRATION Kelly Roe, Department Chair Traci Terpening, Secreatary 232 Tyler Hall 315.312.2111
ART DEPARTMENT FACULTY Amy Bartell, Graphic Design and Illustration Peter Cardone, Photography Jason Cheney, Drawing and Illustration Cynthia Clabough, Graphic Design, Illustration, and Art History Ben Entner, 3-D Design, Sculpture, and Art History Michael Flanagan, Tyler Art Gallery and Museum Studies Steven Ginsburg, Woodshop Technician Donna Green, Graphic Design Elizabeth Hunt, Printmaking, Graphic Design, and Illustration Julieve Jubin, Photography Lisa Langlois, Art History Melissa Martin, Graphic Design Christopher McEvoy, Painting and Drawing Richard Metzger, 2D and 3D Design Rebecca Mushtare, Web and Multimedia Design Juan Perdiguero, Drawing and Painting Mary Pierce, Printmaking and 2D Design Joseph Mario Romano, Drawing, Painting, and 2D Design Lisa Seppi, Art History Cara Brewer Thompson, Graphic Design and Multimedia Renquian Yang, Ceramics and 3D Design
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